Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

I have to point out that it happened to me twice it was impossible to look at replay (reading file error!)[:(!]
fortunatly it was possible to play my move each time!
it's in Waterloo full campaign (wide varriant) the 2nd phase: combined battles Ligny and Quatre-Bras
is there other ones in the same case
would it be a bug
[?]

Lieutenant colonel Christian Rizo
2ème bataillon du 12ème Régiment de Ligne
1e Brigade
11e Division
IIIe Corps
Armée du Nord

"Un Hussard qui n'est pas mort à 30 ans est un jean-foutre" - LaSalle

Sometimes you have to delete the PBEMAIL.XXX AND PBEMAIL.YYY files to correct some problems. These files have no use, after you have played a turn. You should delete them before you try to play the next turn and use the replay.

<b><font color="gold">Ernie Sands
GdB,1er Brig,1eme Div,VI Corps,AdR
President, Colonial Campaign Club
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Proper sequence is:

1. Player A gets file and cant watch replay.
2. Player A has to contact his opponent Player B who will need to delete HIS PBEMAIL .xxx and .yyy and CAMPAIGN .xxx and .yyy files.
3. Player B then does his turn again. Sends the files to Player A.

This is if Player A really wants to be able to see a replay.

If he doesnt care then he just tells Player B to delete his PBEM files for all future moves. Player A does his move, sends the file and then deletes HIS PBEMAIL files just to be on the safe side.

From what I am seeing the problem occurs after alot of turns have gone by. Thus you wont get it with Turn 1 of a game. You might get it with turn 20 though.

Not sure why it happens but deleting those PBEMAIL files on a regular basis for all of our games helps reduce the problem down to almost no occurance.

CAVEAT: dont try deleting the PBEMAIL and CAMPAIGN files during a turn. They are locked for use by the game and campaign engine respectively.

This should be on a FAQ board somewhere. I am going to copy this text for future posts.

Oberst Wilhelm Peters
2nd Kuirassiers, Reserve Korps, Austrian Army
[url="http://www.acwgc.org/acwgc_members/burr/Austrian%20Army/Bill_Peters.htm"]Officer Battle Dossier[/url]

Why can't HPS modify the game engines to clean up these XXX and YYY files ?

I can't seeing it being all that hard ...

Marechal John Corbin
Chief of Staff
La Grande Armee

thanks it's always a problem with these files
have we to delete all these files before or after recording cpf or bte file into hard drive

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Bill says
From what I am seeing the problem occurs after alot of turns have gone by. Thus you wont get it with Turn 1 of a game. You might get it with turn 20 though.
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i got this problem yet not after a lot of turns

Lieutenant colonel Christian Rizo
2ème bataillon du 12ème Régiment de Ligne
1e Brigade
11e Division
IIIe Corps
Armée du Nord

"Un Hussard qui n'est pas mort à 30 ans est un jean-foutre" - LaSalle

Still better[:D]
i think my opponent did delete those holly files but this time that is my replay that i see so i've stopped it not to see my opponent's position
and if i don't look at replay it's normal, it's the new turn and i can play my move
i must say that never happened in Eckmuhl or NRC even in full campaigns

Lieutenant colonel Christian Rizo
2ème bataillon du 12ème Régiment de Ligne
1e Brigade
11e Division
IIIe Corps
Armée du Nord

"Un Hussard qui n'est pas mort à 30 ans est un jean-foutre" - LaSalle